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Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast (www.windowslatest.com)
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[โ€“] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Linux does this too. GNOME and KDE both do web searches from the search menu by default (to be more precise they search the app store, which is on the web)

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, but at least in KDE, when I search for something that it can't find on the PC, it gives you the option to "search blah with duckduckgo in firefox" instead of starting a web search immediately, waiting for it to finish, and showing the results in your start menu in front of whatever you actually wanted to find on your PC. It's the fallback and not the default.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    What I'm saying is that if you type "cat videos" in the search bar, it will immediately search the KDE Discover app store for relevant results, by default. It's not searching the entire web but it's still sending a request to the internet, one that can be tracked and shared (for example if you have Flathub enabled in KDE Discover, and Flathub happens to use Google analytics on their servers, then Google would know about everything you type in the search bar)

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Actually, I just checked with Wireshark, and no traffic left my PC when I searched for a name of a flatpak app, not until I actually opened Discover to look for the app. Discover has a local cache and KRunner uses that for app searches.

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